Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You took the job with him simply to clear up a mystery .
2 The personal representative may suffer because it may not be possible for him fully to wind up the estate and to obtain a discharge from his fiduciary responsibilities .
3 He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household .
4 Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station .
5 In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria .
6 Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’
7 As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room .
8 She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command .
9 He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit .
10 She opened her mouth again and he quickly held up a hand .
11 I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub .
12 He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night .
13 At the request of the inhabitants , he also opened up a well from which they draw water to this day , and his name is still commemorated in the village .
14 One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight .
15 He also built up the island 's banana trade .
16 He also built up the railway 's fleet of passenger and cargo ships sailing to Ireland and the Continent from Goole , Fleetwood , and Liverpool ; by 1914 it was the largest of any of the British railway companies .
17 Berger watched him for a while , and then he also pulled up the collar of his greatcoat and turned into the corner .
18 Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then .
19 There were three girls , including Nick 's sister Linda ; the other lad was Nick 's close friend , Louis Hanvey , with whom he now propped up the school wall , waiting for the ‘ school-run Mum ’ to arrive .
20 In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong .
21 He really livened up the debate .
22 He finished this one quicker than the other two and when that was done he immediately picked up the knife and cut the next slice .
23 It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice .
24 He then summed up the situation in brusque style for the policeman at the other end .
25 He then picks up a chainsaw , revs it into action and proceeds to carve the single word ‘ RIEN ( NOTHING ) ’ out of the fake Berlin wall that towers behind them .
26 Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants .
27 He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light .
28 He then picked up the hat .
29 He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher .
30 He then marched up the hall , climbed on to the dais and sat down at the head of the table there , snapping his fingers for Athelstan to join him .
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